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ronald reagan, right? and what did ronald reagan do? he gave amnesty to 3 million latinos who were living here illegally, and i don't have the exact quote memorized but reagan said at the time i totally support amnesty for these people who are good-law-abiding members of their community even if they may have at one time come here illegally. it is interesting -- there is a column on this that will be posted later today. if you look back at ronald reagan, the conservative icon right? he raised taxes, seven out of eight years that he was president. he supported a ban on assault weapons. he supported and signed a bill creating amnesty for 3 million people who came here illegally. >> what a liberal. >> bill: if republicans -- ronald reagan could not get elected in the republican primary today and i just wish that -- not that i'm a great big fan of ronald reagan. but i wish republicans would just stop worshipping ronald reagan and start following him, start imitating him, and get that practical side to problem solving that ronald reagan did h
ronald reagan, right? and what did ronald reagan do? he gave amnesty to 3 million latinos who were living here illegally, and i don't have the exact quote memorized but reagan said at the time i totally support amnesty for these people who are good-law-abiding members of their community even if they may have at one time come here illegally. it is interesting -- there is a column on this that will be posted later today. if you look back at ronald reagan, the conservative icon right? he raised...
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ronald reagan. >> the whole tax cutting myth about ronald reagan, raising taxes. they don't want to believe it. >> obama hasn't raised gas taxes. reagan did one better on that. to extend the argument. >> immigration reform? >> from george w. bush mitt romney's healthcare provider. on and on. so when i say, and yet for all of these things that he has done, he has copied all of these big ideas from republicans. again, going all the way back and then to nixon and yet their response is, he is just a fascist, a socialist. really? what were nixon and reagan and george w. bush for god's sake? they completely shunned their own. they ignored their own history >> bill: they don't recognize their own ideas. right? when they are staring them in the face. >> i think most people can recognize the republican party of today is not the republican party of 20, 30 years ago. most people who look at this independently can see that. but i think the bigger question is: is there ever going to be anything that's a wake-up call for them? what would the wake-up call be that they say, okay.
ronald reagan. >> the whole tax cutting myth about ronald reagan, raising taxes. they don't want to believe it. >> obama hasn't raised gas taxes. reagan did one better on that. to extend the argument. >> immigration reform? >> from george w. bush mitt romney's healthcare provider. on and on. so when i say, and yet for all of these things that he has done, he has copied all of these big ideas from republicans. again, going all the way back and then to nixon and yet their...
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it's about almost 24 years since ronald reagan left the white house. why don't we take some time to revisit the legacy of the begingi. per. >> it's about a 5 kneeled video fact-based and direct. it's hosted by m.c.solcon, who is a really fantastic, you know, rap battle master in the music industry passionate about politics, which is a key formula, combining the best of political messaging and entertainment and culture. it's a straight takedown and really not a takedown. it's a reevaluation, a real i think istic of what was reagan's real legacy? what came out of those years? not just scorearboroughscarborough's fantasy and magic drag options. >> mount rush more. >> a lot of debt an iran contra scandal. >> they were selling weapons to islamic terrorists in iran. in a post-9-11 world that sounds a little different. >> it was 7 out of 8 years, new taxes, not tax cuts. >> that's right. >> new taxes? >> new taxes. >> to me astounding how far removed from reality is the republican rhetoric about ronald reagan and what his presidency was about and the last two
it's about almost 24 years since ronald reagan left the white house. why don't we take some time to revisit the legacy of the begingi. per. >> it's about a 5 kneeled video fact-based and direct. it's hosted by m.c.solcon, who is a really fantastic, you know, rap battle master in the music industry passionate about politics, which is a key formula, combining the best of political messaging and entertainment and culture. it's a straight takedown and really not a takedown. it's a...
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they love to quote ronald reagan but when he says something sensible, they disassociate. he is absolutely correct. one of the things the boehner proposal does is reduces social security benefits so if you are making a billion dollars, you get your tax cut but if you are an 85-year-old social security recipient, you get a social security cut. how is that fair? >> if only they would listen to ronald reagan and raise taxes when necessary and get their grum -- grimey hands off social security, we would all be better off. congressman steve israel, you are doing a great job. thanks for coming in. all right? back at the dccc. good for you? >> thank you. >> on your radio and on current tv this is "the bill press show." [ music ] [ music ] >> the bill bres show on current tv. >> before the top of the hour here on the full court press, in the next hour meredith shiner from roll call will be here as a friend of bill will be called by the nation's sports editor and our own sports bureau dave zirin to talk a little bit more about bob costas carl frisch here from bull fight strategies
they love to quote ronald reagan but when he says something sensible, they disassociate. he is absolutely correct. one of the things the boehner proposal does is reduces social security benefits so if you are making a billion dollars, you get your tax cut but if you are an 85-year-old social security recipient, you get a social security cut. how is that fair? >> if only they would listen to ronald reagan and raise taxes when necessary and get their grum -- grimey hands off social...
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but ronald reagan was not against raising taxes. ronald reagan still, today the biggest tax increase in the history of the state of california where i lived and worked for 30 years. i know the history there, the biggest increase in the state of california, still governor ronald reagan and when he was president of the united states, he raised taxes, signed off on new taxes seven out of eight years that he was in the white house. as president obama said yesterday, they glorify ronald reagan, hell they wouldn't vote for him today. >> did it multiple times. he could not get through a republican primary today. >> couldn't get through a republican primary today. finally, as the president pointed out, this budget is not just paul ryan's budget. this budget has been approved not just by all of the house republicans who have voted for it again two years in a row. it has been embraced whole-heartedly by mitt romney. >> where are my potential opponents? governor romney said he hoped a similar version of this plan last year would be introduced
but ronald reagan was not against raising taxes. ronald reagan still, today the biggest tax increase in the history of the state of california where i lived and worked for 30 years. i know the history there, the biggest increase in the state of california, still governor ronald reagan and when he was president of the united states, he raised taxes, signed off on new taxes seven out of eight years that he was in the white house. as president obama said yesterday, they glorify ronald reagan, hell...
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this is what ronald reagan did. >> exactly. exactly. oh, yeah. absolutely. and it's part of the job. >> yeah. ? >> you would hope that the president is engaged in a dialogue with the american people on the issues that are central importance to the country. >> called the bully pulpit. he won it. he was talking to a colleague of yours in the house the other day. and i mentioned, you know, because just butefore you guys came back, got here to save us from going over the fiscal cliff, and he said why not go over the cliff? it's not a cliff. it's a slope. if you look at it, the immediate impact won't be so bad. and he said, i think it might be better to go over the cliff than accept a bad deal. do you agree? >> well, he is right in the sense that it's not a cliff. it is a gradual slope. but i don't think we can afford to go over the cliff. i think it would have a significant adverse effect on the economy at a time where poised to pull out of this recession and post recessionary period. so it has to be avoided. i do agree with him in this respect, though that the
this is what ronald reagan did. >> exactly. exactly. oh, yeah. absolutely. and it's part of the job. >> yeah. ? >> you would hope that the president is engaged in a dialogue with the american people on the issues that are central importance to the country. >> called the bully pulpit. he won it. he was talking to a colleague of yours in the house the other day. and i mentioned, you know, because just butefore you guys came back, got here to save us from going over the...
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exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour. congresswoman karen bass joining us in studio in the next segment. we're talking about president obama taking his show on the road to get the support of the american people for a tax cut -- you wouldn't think you would have to go out and put pressure on congress to give 98% of americans a tax cut. but it shows you how out of touch with the american people, the republican leadership in congress particularly are. peter, what have we got going on? >> online, we're not only tweeting at bp show. we're in the chat room. current.com/billpress. barbara in d.c. in the chat room says republicans used to put country fi
exactly what ronald reagan did! >> whoa, whoa, careful, bill! how dare you invoke the name the holy one! >> bill: that's exactly -- i think the president is right on. how about you. 1-866-55-press. let's talk about it. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." live on your radio and current tv. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 24 minutes after the hour....
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. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill: so are we going over the fiscal cliff? >> i think we are. i think we are. for a couple of reasons. one, there's not a whole lot of time. it is six weeks from tomorrow to the start -- >> bill: they don't have any backbone. >> that's number two. number three 80 lame ducks who may not show up to vote. plus you've got this stale -- continuing stalemate on tax and spending policies and then on top of everything else, it is not really a fiscal cliff. it is a fiscal slope. it stays in place. they called it a cliff but the damage to the economy the real damage only happens if you expose it. >> bill: stan collender, check
. >> bill: they say we're doing this in the legacy of ronald reagan. bull you know what. ronald reagan raised taxes five times. >> reagan would have no place in the current republican party given some of the things they did. grover norquist holds him up as an icon. grover is in a completely different place than he is on taxes. >> bill: why don't the media expose these people as the liars and hypocrites that they are? >> because they're fair and balanced. >> bill:...
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in 1980 when jimmy carter was running for re-election and ronald reagan running against him. are you better off than you were four years ago. the answer then was clearly no. it was a good question to ask then. i'm not sure republicans ought to be asking it today because i think it is a different answer today. democrats finally, on this issue and love your take on that. 1-866-55-press. let's get into it. democrats got off to a little rocky start on sunday. bob schieffer welcomed governor martin o'malley whom i think is great by the way. clearly will be a candidate for president in 2016. great leader. but he wasn't thinking as fast as he usually does when bob schieffer asked him this question on sunday and he stumbled a little bit. >> can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago? >> no. but that's not the question of this election. the question, without a doubt we are not as well off as we were before george bush brought us the bush job losses, the bush recession, the bush deficits, the series of desert wars. >> bill: he got around to it b
in 1980 when jimmy carter was running for re-election and ronald reagan running against him. are you better off than you were four years ago. the answer then was clearly no. it was a good question to ask then. i'm not sure republicans ought to be asking it today because i think it is a different answer today. democrats finally, on this issue and love your take on that. 1-866-55-press. let's get into it. democrats got off to a little rocky start on sunday. bob schieffer welcomed governor martin...
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i remember ronald reagan reading about ronald reagan fired his entire team or put in a new campaign manager at one time. sometimes candidates feel they have to do this. >> i would not expect any changes out of boston. >> bill: would not? >> would not. mitt romney values loyalty. that's one thing you can see in his operation is he's the kind of guy that values the company man, the person who stuck around. people that have been with him since '08 since the beginning of the primary. a lot of these people who are really close to him in boston are those company men. those guys who have been with him. don't expect to see any changes coming out of boston between now and november in terms of personnel. >> bill: ginger gibson from politico. politico.com. now this story was written by mike alan for politico before the video was released. over the weekend. this video comes as -- would come, as i would imagine as another body blow to the romney campaign ginger. >> yesterday was not a good day for the romney campaign. in the morning they were answering concerns that there is fighting within their campai
i remember ronald reagan reading about ronald reagan fired his entire team or put in a new campaign manager at one time. sometimes candidates feel they have to do this. >> i would not expect any changes out of boston. >> bill: would not? >> would not. mitt romney values loyalty. that's one thing you can see in his operation is he's the kind of guy that values the company man, the person who stuck around. people that have been with him since '08 since the beginning of the...
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yesterday, as soon as she died, everybody said oh, my god you know like ronald reagan, she walked on water. she's a conservative. we should all follow. of course, they say that about ronald reagan who could probably not get elected today in a republican party primary. you say the same thing about maggie thatcher? the iron lady? >> well, a conservative politician to be sure and one who certainly in england divides people and there's been some celebrations in some places in england about her death. so a big leader, a world leader. >> bill: but not everybody loved her. >> right. not everybody loved her. in the states, she is really an idol for a lot of republicans. you heard sarah palin famelessly proclaim she looks up to maggie thatcher. of course, before 2008, she didn't know who maggie thatcher was. "vanity fair" profile. >> bill: she couldn't see her. >> wanted to meet her. but look -- >> bill: maggie wouldn't meet with her. she said it was beneath her. >> that was during the campaign. the question is how does she fit into the ideological mold of today's republicans. today's republi
yesterday, as soon as she died, everybody said oh, my god you know like ronald reagan, she walked on water. she's a conservative. we should all follow. of course, they say that about ronald reagan who could probably not get elected today in a republican party primary. you say the same thing about maggie thatcher? the iron lady? >> well, a conservative politician to be sure and one who certainly in england divides people and there's been some celebrations in some places in england about...
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ronald reagan would never, never raise taxes. he could never go along with the buffett rule thinkprogress pulled the covers back and discovered ronald reagan is actually a big supporter of the buffett rule. here is the tape that you released yesterday. >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well above $100,000 a year. >> six figures. >> he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said illegally able to take advantage of the present tax code, nothing dishonest, doing what the law prescribes, and wind up paying a smaller salary than my secretary gets. i mean paying a -- sorry paying a smaller tax than my secretary pays. and he wrote me the letter to tell me he would like to come to washington and testify before congress as to how that's possible for him to do and why it is wrong. >> feels bad then? it's worse now. >> so warren buffett
ronald reagan would never, never raise taxes. he could never go along with the buffett rule thinkprogress pulled the covers back and discovered ronald reagan is actually a big supporter of the buffett rule. here is the tape that you released yesterday. >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well...
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of course, the classic was back in 1984, when ronald reagan said -- he was asked to do a mic check. he was about to give a -- record his radio address and he looked at barbara and said i want to announce that i have signed legislation that will outlaw russia and the bombing begins in five minutes, which iswas not well received, needless to say across the pond. what else? i looked up some other things john major when he was prime minister of the u.k. called members of this cab nitinet bastaddress. those bastards i have to deal with all of those bastards. 2008, four years ago during the presidential campaign, jesse jackson sitting on the set at cnn and he turned to his -- whoever the fellow panelist was and he said how unhappy he was with candidate barack obama because he didn't think barack obama was standing up enough for african issues and jesse jackson said, i want to cut his nuts off. now, i just ask you: do you take those and compare that to hey, dmooet redmitri, this is my last election. give me time and i will have more flexibility. i would have to say no big deal. what do you
of course, the classic was back in 1984, when ronald reagan said -- he was asked to do a mic check. he was about to give a -- record his radio address and he looked at barbara and said i want to announce that i have signed legislation that will outlaw russia and the bombing begins in five minutes, which iswas not well received, needless to say across the pond. what else? i looked up some other things john major when he was prime minister of the u.k. called members of this cab nitinet...
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." >> republicans want to name something else after ronald reagan. darrell issa and members of the natural resource committee are now pushing a bill that would rename the 3.4 million square miles of ocean that extends 200 miles off the u.s. coastline after the late president as the ronald wilson reagan exclusive economic zone according to the hill. [ laughter ] >> of course they do! >> back in 1983 -- >> bill: this is so crazy. if they do this, i'm leaving this country! damn it, leave the ocean alone! >> 1983, what happened was reagan proclaimed that the u.s. had the rights to all of the water off the u.s. coast for exploring, exploiting and conserving offshore resources including energy out there. and they just want to honor that >> bill: we have too damn much named after ronald reagan. he was a lousy president. >> al roker -- >> bill: start with national airport in washington, d.c. and take the name off and rip the statue down. then how about the ronald reagan building downtown? take the name off of that building. don't get me started. i'm done. >>
." >> republicans want to name something else after ronald reagan. darrell issa and members of the natural resource committee are now pushing a bill that would rename the 3.4 million square miles of ocean that extends 200 miles off the u.s. coastline after the late president as the ronald wilson reagan exclusive economic zone according to the hill. [ laughter ] >> of course they do! >> back in 1983 -- >> bill: this is so crazy. if they do this, i'm leaving this...
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reagan used to knock back a couple of drinks in the evening after they fought during the day. but with this gang, you're never sure they're sincere right when they pretend to have a good time. hanging out with the president shaking his hand, getting their pictures taken. >> it is a real opportunity for members to actually have family come with them on the white house lawn. other than the christmas party you really don't get there. this is a great opportunity for your family and so -- but i would say it is not like the old days. my dad was in congress for 37 years and it definitely has changed during my 14 years. but tonight is a good example. as you know, there's the annual baseball game. democrats against republicans. but right before that game, you know what we're going to be doing? >> bill: you're going to be voting to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. >> then go out and play baseball. >> that should be fun. awkward! >> bill: awkward! exactly. lots to cover here with congressman charlie gonzalez. i keep saying that -- sorry about that. and we'll get to those but fir
reagan used to knock back a couple of drinks in the evening after they fought during the day. but with this gang, you're never sure they're sincere right when they pretend to have a good time. hanging out with the president shaking his hand, getting their pictures taken. >> it is a real opportunity for members to actually have family come with them on the white house lawn. other than the christmas party you really don't get there. this is a great opportunity for your family and so -- but...
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ronald reagan, he'll say -- never, never never would ronald reagan be for raising taxes. he raised taxes seven out of eight years. i'm a californian. biggest tax cut. we played a clip of ronald reagan saying the wealthy should not pay a lower rate of tax than their secretary pays. he's for the buffett rule in 1985. republicans still deny it. here's the book. it is called "the republican brain." chris mooney is the author. he's in the studio with us. i can't figure the conservatives out. maybe you can. chris mooney has done a pretty good job of it in the republican brain which presumes that they have one. be glad to have you join the conversation at 866-55-press. we'll be right back. lost our democracy here. >>this is outrageous! we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. if you have copd like i do you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled c
ronald reagan, he'll say -- never, never never would ronald reagan be for raising taxes. he raised taxes seven out of eight years. i'm a californian. biggest tax cut. we played a clip of ronald reagan saying the wealthy should not pay a lower rate of tax than their secretary pays. he's for the buffett rule in 1985. republicans still deny it. here's the book. it is called "the republican brain." chris mooney is the author. he's in the studio with us. i can't figure the conservatives...
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bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours yesterday, who is a nasa scientist. i said did you ever get to that mountain? and he said no it takes a long time but we found this great rock yesterday. [ laughter ] >> i love it. white house report tells us that the vice president stopped in at a cafe. ordered food, and offered to buy food for the press corps following him, but they declined. >> bill: isn't that where he said this tastes like a half smoke. he knows his sausage from chicago. 15 minutes after the hour yes, indeed it was a big news on friday. when politicians want to get bad news out they do it on a friday afternoon, it's called in the trade -- i'm
bush nor ronald reagan could get through an election in the republican party. [ technical difficulties ] >> we finished by smashing his guitar on the stage walked off, and the next morning his band announced he was in rehab. the mars rover is still chugging along. it is stopping along the way when it's cameras find something to look at. it found a pyramid shaped rock over the weekend. they pulled out its robotic arm to look closely. >> bill: i ran into a neighborhood of ours...
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state of california was signed into law by ronald reagan. when he was president, scenario out of eight years he was president, there were tax increases. right? getting rid of loopholes or whatever. he was a dr.inair conservative. he knew how to compromise. today, they don't. >> they do not want to compromise. all they want to do is make sure that barak obama is a one-term president. they don't care how they do it. they don't care who about who gets hurt. when you look at dismantling government and look at social security, for example, medicare, they want to privatize all of this. they want to privatize schools. they just want to dismantle any type of common good structure and framework that we have. >> i was going to ask you: do you know that these tea party freshmen believe in government at all? >> i don't think they do. i think they really, you know, believe in, you know what they believe in, and that is go for what you know. pull yourself up by your boot straps. it doesn't matter if there is a safety net. and i don't believe they believe
state of california was signed into law by ronald reagan. when he was president, scenario out of eight years he was president, there were tax increases. right? getting rid of loopholes or whatever. he was a dr.inair conservative. he knew how to compromise. today, they don't. >> they do not want to compromise. all they want to do is make sure that barak obama is a one-term president. they don't care how they do it. they don't care who about who gets hurt. when you look at dismantling...
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ronald reagan said he was against term limits when he left office, because he felt in america people should be allowed to pick the leaders they want. >> caller: i believe they should have the term limits because really -- and i'm speaking to you in my point i cannot speak for hispanics, but the majority of black people are looking at this, and never since the gop is going through -- would we help them. >> john: it's true. and this is what a lot of moderate republicans keep screaming about, that they are marginalizing themselves by doing this. and making their party smaller ever year. thank you for your call. >> caller: thank you. >> john: let's play a clip. >> i find someone even as high-ranking, frankly as former president bill clinton to go and be the negotiator. we need a person of enormous prestige and influence so have these parties sit down together. we're crumbling all over the middle east. >> john: that was john mccain talking about how much work is needed to regain credibility. >> boy. that will hurt your head if you think about that too long. >> john: somebody should tell h
ronald reagan said he was against term limits when he left office, because he felt in america people should be allowed to pick the leaders they want. >> caller: i believe they should have the term limits because really -- and i'm speaking to you in my point i cannot speak for hispanics, but the majority of black people are looking at this, and never since the gop is going through -- would we help them. >> john: it's true. and this is what a lot of moderate republicans keep screaming...
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if ronald reagan or george bush or mitt romney had nominated chuck hagel to be secretary of defense, republicans would be dancing in the streets singing he's one of us! he's a war hero! he's a republican! but barack obama nominates him and they're out to destroy his chances and block his nomination. why? only because barack obama is for him. they accuse him of being anti-israel. besides, they say he's anti-gay. wrong on both counts. no, chuck hagel doesn't agree with netanyahu on everything but guess what, neither did george bush or barack obama. doesn't make him anti-israel. back in 1998, then-senator hagel opposed the nomination of my good friend jim hormel from san francisco to be our u.s. ambassador to luxembourg, the first openly gay u.s. ambassador. he was wrong to do that. he has since apologized. jim hormel takes his apology. barney frank has promised to work with and support lgbt members of the military and their families. once again republicans like john mccain and lindsey graham are playing politics with national security. it is disgusting. chuck hagel will make a great se
if ronald reagan or george bush or mitt romney had nominated chuck hagel to be secretary of defense, republicans would be dancing in the streets singing he's one of us! he's a war hero! he's a republican! but barack obama nominates him and they're out to destroy his chances and block his nomination. why? only because barack obama is for him. they accuse him of being anti-israel. besides, they say he's anti-gay. wrong on both counts. no, chuck hagel doesn't agree with netanyahu on everything but...
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ronald reagan and -- this is more your style, tom toles. i've never worn makeup. >> let me just comment -- it couldn't be simpler. i just have to comment on conrad's drawing style. he had a bold, just powerful line. >> bill: can you see it, cyprian? >> that works -- that's his opening -- his introductory card is his powerful drawing style. and here again he takes -- he takes a spoken part of actual history and turns it on its head with the cartoon which reveals the hidden meaning behind what would have struck somebody else as just a throw away line. >> bill: he did wear makeup. he wore makeup and he wore hair coloring. >> i'm shocked to learn that! [ laughter ] >> bill: in a sense no matter how many essays or magazine articles or books that you would write, this is just powerful as you can make it. that's the power of political cartoon. you can have as much influence with one little -- box or, dan series of boxes right that anybody could have with a piece. >> that's why the art form exists. >> bill: one more. a personal friend of mine and i
ronald reagan and -- this is more your style, tom toles. i've never worn makeup. >> let me just comment -- it couldn't be simpler. i just have to comment on conrad's drawing style. he had a bold, just powerful line. >> bill: can you see it, cyprian? >> that works -- that's his opening -- his introductory card is his powerful drawing style. and here again he takes -- he takes a spoken part of actual history and turns it on its head with the cartoon which reveals the hidden...
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it is a tradition starting with ronald reagan and lenny sputnik. you remember that. >> the guy in the gallery. >> bill: guest of honor. people you would be proud of and people we want to thank and respect. steve stockman tonight this congressman from texas has invited ted nugent to be his guest at the state of the union. here's ted nugent at a concert last year. talking about president obama. >> obama. suck on this. obama. he's a piece of [ bleep ] >> bill: he says obama you may want to suck on one of these, you bum and calls him a piece of crap. this guy is a guest at the state of the union? >> i think the best thing to do with him is never talk about him. to ignore him tonight. to ignore him on the show. to just -- it is outrageous. it is all of that. the guy -- more than meig, he wants attention. don't give it to him. >> bill: why would boehner let him in? >> i don't know. i don't get the far right and how filled with hate they are toward so much -- so many in this country. they hate government. they hate medicare. they say they like medicare an
it is a tradition starting with ronald reagan and lenny sputnik. you remember that. >> the guy in the gallery. >> bill: guest of honor. people you would be proud of and people we want to thank and respect. steve stockman tonight this congressman from texas has invited ted nugent to be his guest at the state of the union. here's ted nugent at a concert last year. talking about president obama. >> obama. suck on this. obama. he's a piece of [ bleep ] >> bill: he says obama...
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george bush is not going replace ronald reagan as the heart throb of the republican party? >> i don't think so. it's only inevitable that he will be more appreciated as time goes by. >> bill: right. neil king is here as a friend of bill. join us with your comments at 866-55-press. >> announcer: on your radio, and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle c
george bush is not going replace ronald reagan as the heart throb of the republican party? >> i don't think so. it's only inevitable that he will be more appreciated as time goes by. >> bill: right. neil king is here as a friend of bill. join us with your comments at 866-55-press. >> announcer: on your radio, and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can...
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ronald reagan carried north dakota in a huge landslide. so people were on the republican side of the ticket voting for ronald reagan, came back over in large part, voted for me. i won with 57% that year. north dakotans are ticket splitters. they take a look at the candidate much more so than the party. although i must admit only two presidential candidates, two democratic presidential candidates in 100 years have gotten the votes of north dakota. they traditionally vote republican for president. but other than that, they're very choosy and they want someone they can trust someone they like and heidi heitkamp ran a great campaign. she will be a terrific senator. >> bill: you have been out of the senate now for two years. among other things, you're writing novels. and you have another one coming out. you've been working with a bipartisan policy center, particularly on the energy issue. and releasing your recommendations yesterday. to the congress and the president. what are you suggesting? what's the plan? >> as you know, it is very hard to
ronald reagan carried north dakota in a huge landslide. so people were on the republican side of the ticket voting for ronald reagan, came back over in large part, voted for me. i won with 57% that year. north dakotans are ticket splitters. they take a look at the candidate much more so than the party. although i must admit only two presidential candidates, two democratic presidential candidates in 100 years have gotten the votes of north dakota. they traditionally vote republican for...
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i don't care if it's fdr and i've been to that one or ronald reagan. i've been to that one or richard nixon, i've been to that one. i think everything ought to be housed in the library of congress for the american people. and we don't need brick and mortar edifices to every president, good and bad but that's my little rant. it has been 24 hours so have you tweeted the pope yet? >> no. >> bill: what? come on. you got him out there. >> i would like to get him to do one of the friday follows of me. that's my long-term goal. [ laughter ] >> he's going to have a few more followers than i am. >> we did tweet to the pope. we asked the pope if he thinks that speaker boehner is possessed by a demon. we have not got an response yet. the pope has 367,884 followers. zero tweets. he hasn't tweeted anything yet. >> bill: how can you have that many followers without a tweet? >> everyone knows he's tweeting so they're following him. >> bill: we had the classic yesterday, michael the classic tweet. one of our listeners or viewers wanted us to tweet to the pope, peter -
i don't care if it's fdr and i've been to that one or ronald reagan. i've been to that one or richard nixon, i've been to that one. i think everything ought to be housed in the library of congress for the american people. and we don't need brick and mortar edifices to every president, good and bad but that's my little rant. it has been 24 hours so have you tweeted the pope yet? >> no. >> bill: what? come on. you got him out there. >> i would like to get him to do one of the...
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ronald reagan. that's right the reagan administration asserted that justice department deliberation like these should not be subject to congressional scrutiny and review. secondly actually i think thirdly, even republicans think that daryl isom is going too far. eric can'ter the republican majority leader said maybe this isn't such a good idea and tried to put the kibosh on things. >> the other thing that sort of gets me and this is where it gets pretty weird. daryl isa and other republicans have suggested that this whole abrasion of allowing guns to go to mexico is part of some conspiracy theory. in other words he has said that the obama administration "made a crisis with this gun running when they continued the bush era gun running operations because they wanted to use this crisis to somehow take away or limit people's second amendment rights." hmm. allowing goes mexico would somehow limit second amendment rights. the theory in the right wing is that the there's a former militia man who supports v
ronald reagan. that's right the reagan administration asserted that justice department deliberation like these should not be subject to congressional scrutiny and review. secondly actually i think thirdly, even republicans think that daryl isom is going too far. eric can'ter the republican majority leader said maybe this isn't such a good idea and tried to put the kibosh on things. >> the other thing that sort of gets me and this is where it gets pretty weird. daryl isa and other...
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that's the same rate that was signed into law by ronald reagan in 1986. we it had it through the '90s. that would basically ensure people like mitt romney are not able to pay extraordinarily low rates on their income. >> bill: we have to remember that this is classically called unearned income. money that they really don't work for. that's another failure of the tax code to me is that people that really bust their butts and work up a sweat and have to take a shower when they get home from work, they pay a higher rate on that income, a much higher rate on income than people who just sit home and clip their coupons. >> that's absolutely right. there are a whole bunch of other loopholes that mitt romney is taking advantage of including stashing money in his i.r.a. and all sorts of things we would crack down on and address those issues of fairness. that really is a problem when you're filling out your taxes. you're thinking how come i'm doing this. i'm sure there's rich guy out there getting away with something. the fact is, there are. >> bill: it is the big
that's the same rate that was signed into law by ronald reagan in 1986. we it had it through the '90s. that would basically ensure people like mitt romney are not able to pay extraordinarily low rates on their income. >> bill: we have to remember that this is classically called unearned income. money that they really don't work for. that's another failure of the tax code to me is that people that really bust their butts and work up a sweat and have to take a shower when they get home from...
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they've become so extreme says jeb bush that neither his father nor ronald reagan could get elected today in a republican primary. so let's throw the extremists out and get back to some good, sensible, moderate republicans who want to get things done. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on today's "full court press." here we get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles where she's got today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. the department of justice says it plans to sue the state of florida for refusing to stop purging state voter rolls in violation of -- there we go. sorry about that. so the secretary of state basically saying that the laws are in place to -- for voting and the state has the legal right within nine days of general elections. [ indiscernible ] the secretary of state is suing the department of homeland security. i'm sorry, forgive me. they're allowed to collect donations via text message. they voted unanimously to allow people to give money through their mobile devices. both democrats and repub
they've become so extreme says jeb bush that neither his father nor ronald reagan could get elected today in a republican primary. so let's throw the extremists out and get back to some good, sensible, moderate republicans who want to get things done. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more here on today's "full court press." here we get the latest from jacki schechner out in los angeles where she's got today's current news update. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, bill....
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. >> bill: and when we had amnesty -- ronald reagan called it amnesty, and he said they deserved it, right? when -- during that period how tough were the requirements under his program? >> there were similar requirements in terms of having to learn english and background checks, a big flaw was to be eligible you had to have been in the united states as of the first of january of 1982. the law didn't pass until 1986. so there were four years of people who may have been here without papers but they didn't qualify. so it would cover more of the folks who are already here. so we have seen some similar requirements in terms of language, taxes, and background checks, of course. i think that the -- the reaction that many have, and that republicans in particular are fighting against is that they are broken the law, and they need to do something to get right by the law, and therefore you have to have these kinds of requirements. >> bill: angela kelly on immigration reform democrats want it, republicans need it looks like it could happen this year. nobody knows the issue better than angie from
. >> bill: and when we had amnesty -- ronald reagan called it amnesty, and he said they deserved it, right? when -- during that period how tough were the requirements under his program? >> there were similar requirements in terms of having to learn english and background checks, a big flaw was to be eligible you had to have been in the united states as of the first of january of 1982. the law didn't pass until 1986. so there were four years of people who may have been here without...
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ronald reagan pointed that out. ed from new jersey look on boehner's home page, the actual heading reads, quote response to president obama's unserious fiscal cliff proposal. is unserious a word? in john boehner's universe, i guess. >> as much of a word as flabbergasted is. >> bill: robert calls him the weeper of the house. kitty jon says says i started my campaign against boehner last week saying what you are discussing this morning. i don't plan to let up on it although i believe it falls on deaf ears. peter, how do people john campaign? >> peter: on twitter@speaker boehner. speaker.gov/contact, 202-225-0600, how to get in touch with speaker boehner >> bill: the message is simply at that time cut for 98% of the americans, lead or get out of the way. >> "the bill press show." >> yesterday we saw both sides accusing each other of not getting anything done. speaker john boehner said on fox news sunday, right now we are nor, period. here is let's take a look at treasury secretary timothy geithner on abc's "this week".
ronald reagan pointed that out. ed from new jersey look on boehner's home page, the actual heading reads, quote response to president obama's unserious fiscal cliff proposal. is unserious a word? in john boehner's universe, i guess. >> as much of a word as flabbergasted is. >> bill: robert calls him the weeper of the house. kitty jon says says i started my campaign against boehner last week saying what you are discussing this morning. i don't plan to let up on it although i believe...
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george herbert walker said ronald reagan's economics whyere voodoo he did not say he would be the worst possible republican to challenge jimmy carter. reagan put him on the ticket. it was fine. these fall into the category of irretrieve irretrievable. >> my final question, a tricky one. are you ready for this 1234. >> i am ready. >> would you pay $50 to have your photo taken with newt gingrich? >> no. >> the fact that he's charging people $50 kind of said something about his campaign? doesn't it. >> he said it would be a brand-new kind of campaign. i guess he meant it. >> broke. ridiculous. >> if i could get $50 to have someone stand next to me, you know, i give away pictures for free. >> don't hold your breath. >> exactly. >>> major garrett, "national journal." your twitter handle? >> major@nj it used to be major at wh. i could probably put it back now that i am back there but i will keep it at major@mj. >> wrap things up with a parting shot. ♪ >> this is the bill press show. with all the hundreds i've saved on car insurance this year this meter's on me. there's a catch? there's no c
george herbert walker said ronald reagan's economics whyere voodoo he did not say he would be the worst possible republican to challenge jimmy carter. reagan put him on the ticket. it was fine. these fall into the category of irretrieve irretrievable. >> my final question, a tricky one. are you ready for this 1234. >> i am ready. >> would you pay $50 to have your photo taken with newt gingrich? >> no. >> the fact that he's charging people $50 kind of said something...
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. >> ronald reagan welfare queen. >> exactly. it's a debate in this country who is the deserving poor. but there is this caricature for one reason or another the person at the cash register in front of them is totally unworthy, and it's usually just one detail about them, not the full portrait at all. but why someone who is physically fit is undeserving? this is new, sort of a twist. he's not used to telling these stories as a congressman. he's freshman. >> he had a lot more descriptions for the guy, all the muscles, sinewing and tank top, but he had a wife, too, but back to the muscles. >> well usually the people in these stories are like overweight and with 20 kids in tow. so he's sort of flip the script. i asked his office what is fraud lent about that, him being muscular and using food stamps, and they didn't respond. but he's insinuating that this guy had a gym membership. couldn't he get rid of the gym membership before he bought food. >> bill: how many people are on food stamps. >> 15% of this country. >> bill: are they al
. >> ronald reagan welfare queen. >> exactly. it's a debate in this country who is the deserving poor. but there is this caricature for one reason or another the person at the cash register in front of them is totally unworthy, and it's usually just one detail about them, not the full portrait at all. but why someone who is physically fit is undeserving? this is new, sort of a twist. he's not used to telling these stories as a congressman. he's freshman. >> he had a lot more...
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bush, ronald reagan was in the white house ronald reagan of take naps during the middle of the day fame, he was president of the united states while john sununu was governor and he probably never would have said of ronald reagan that he is lazy. >> that's a really really good point you make. because you could legitimately say he did not prepare for the debate. >> certainly on style points. but when you take a look at barack obama substancively, the man -- this is a part of a right-wing theme that has been going on out there, mean, i hate that word but this is part of a right-wing theme that said that barack obama is not prepared to be president of the united states, he is the dumbest president of the united states i heard a woman say on the radio, and i think we know who the dumbest president of the united states was -- >> you don't have to go that far far back. >> i think to call him a dumb man is not credible. this is not the first time that john sununu did this. we have some sound from earlier in the year. >> let me tell you what the big problem with this president is in my opinion,
bush, ronald reagan was in the white house ronald reagan of take naps during the middle of the day fame, he was president of the united states while john sununu was governor and he probably never would have said of ronald reagan that he is lazy. >> that's a really really good point you make. because you could legitimately say he did not prepare for the debate. >> certainly on style points. but when you take a look at barack obama substancively, the man -- this is a part of a...
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ronald reagan got the lead out of our gasoline. george bush went after acid rain >> bill: i was in the state legislature as an aide when ronald reagan signed the wild rivers bill in california. i come back to that. republicans were the leaders of the conservation movement. >> they have pivoted away from their party's history and conservative thought as well because ronald reagan, himself asked the question: what is a conservative, after all, but one who con serves? and he can owed roosevelt in talking about the legacy we leave to our children. >> when did that happen, and how did this become such a political issue when it's really not something to be. >> the biggest corporate plumers in the country have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on capitol hill and pumping up campaign coffers is entails among them the koch brothers? >> absolutely >> bill: some of the biggest polluters, cokekoch industries. bob dean -- bobdines. i'm sorry. we are talking climate change, not so much politics but it gets involved in here. join the conversa
ronald reagan got the lead out of our gasoline. george bush went after acid rain >> bill: i was in the state legislature as an aide when ronald reagan signed the wild rivers bill in california. i come back to that. republicans were the leaders of the conservation movement. >> they have pivoted away from their party's history and conservative thought as well because ronald reagan, himself asked the question: what is a conservative, after all, but one who con serves? and he can owed...
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it started with ronald reagan. i was in california, i was an actor at the time in the screen actor's guild and it gave me the chills that he was governor at the time and was going to run for president. because he was a nice guy very amiable but very malleable too. >> bill: yeah. you know, what's interesting, it started with reagan but he was more talk than action when it came to cutting government because government actually -- i mean he is a member -- remember the phrase, government is not the solution. government is the problem. but if you look at reagan's budget. if you look at his programs. if you look at a lot of his policies reagan could not get elected today. in this republican party. he could not win a primary today in this republican party because he was by comparison to the tea partiers today ronald reagan was a moderate. that's pretty sad. 1-866-55-press. welcome your calls. we're going to jump down to tampa next and talk to current tv's david shuster on the scene with whatever the hell is happening down
it started with ronald reagan. i was in california, i was an actor at the time in the screen actor's guild and it gave me the chills that he was governor at the time and was going to run for president. because he was a nice guy very amiable but very malleable too. >> bill: yeah. you know, what's interesting, it started with reagan but he was more talk than action when it came to cutting government because government actually -- i mean he is a member -- remember the phrase, government is...
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reagan, sleepy, sleepy ♪ ♪ so, when i turn the washington mall into a private putting green, you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ and when i turn the social security over to a bunch of drunken day traders you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ when i drag the nation through eight years of carnage and incompetence and leave the place a bigger mess than lindsay lohan's trailer ♪ ♪ then blame the democrats for cleaning up too slow ♪ ♪ you will awake confused, refreshed, somewhat paranoid and you'll remember nothing ♪ ♪ and vote republican ♪ ♪ you're getting sleepy ♪ ♪ republican ♪ ♪ and somewhat sheepy ♪ ♪ republican ♪ ♪ lula buysend -- ♪ lula buy ♪ >> that's the message. you got it down. that's exactly the message. you could put quotes around every line. people are saying it must be easy to do satire now because -- >> bill: because there's so much material. >> but with the g.o.p.s saying the things they're saying because it is harder. there's competition. it must be satire. they're taking an absurd point of view and extrapolating on that to the nth degree. >> bil
reagan, sleepy, sleepy ♪ ♪ so, when i turn the washington mall into a private putting green, you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ and when i turn the social security over to a bunch of drunken day traders you'll vote republican ♪ ♪ when i drag the nation through eight years of carnage and incompetence and leave the place a bigger mess than lindsay lohan's trailer ♪ ♪ then blame the democrats for cleaning up too slow ♪ ♪ you will awake confused, refreshed, somewhat paranoid and you'll...
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i covered ronald reagan for six years. with sam donaldson, we used to scream our lungs out asking questions, but we always waited until the president had any -- any had finished speaking. the idea that you would interrupt the president in the middle of prepared remarks and shout a question, i don't think the guy should be allowed back in the white house, you know, on a press pass. >> i couldn't agree more. i have already told the leadership of the white house correspondence association of which i am a member, that i think we as a group should con condemn him and i think we should support and ask the white house to pull his pass and never allow him back at any other event in the white house. kathleen's calling from kimbridge, virginia. kathleen, what's your take on this. >> good morning, bill. keep up the good work. i love your program. >> you are very kind. >> thank you. i am incensed. i am so angry with this guy, monroe. manners begin at home. as small children, we should be taught basics, just basic did. it guy is a sank
i covered ronald reagan for six years. with sam donaldson, we used to scream our lungs out asking questions, but we always waited until the president had any -- any had finished speaking. the idea that you would interrupt the president in the middle of prepared remarks and shout a question, i don't think the guy should be allowed back in the white house, you know, on a press pass. >> i couldn't agree more. i have already told the leadership of the white house correspondence association of...
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particularly when you have the federal government and the president, every president since ronald reagan has signed on to the war on drugs to my dismay. even barack obama is a former user. >> not just one product. >> bill: he of anybody would understand. >> how do we start? first of all we've already started. the trend is shifting. it has been shifting for quite some time now. so with colorado and washington states with marijuana we've already started. absolutely. but let's go back to 1933 when we ended alcohol prohibition. i don't think you had a whole lot of people sitting around saying how do we start? how do we end alcohol prohibition. you know what they did? they ended it. you know what? and then they managed it from there. what happened when they did it, immediately, al capone went out of business. he was no longer, you know, traveling where -- his cronies traveling the streets of chicago shooting up the place and you know, it was moms, mothers that really band together and said let's save our children. let's free our children from this bootleg industry. and become a part of it. an
particularly when you have the federal government and the president, every president since ronald reagan has signed on to the war on drugs to my dismay. even barack obama is a former user. >> not just one product. >> bill: he of anybody would understand. >> how do we start? first of all we've already started. the trend is shifting. it has been shifting for quite some time now. so with colorado and washington states with marijuana we've already started. absolutely. but let's go...
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remember he served for ronald reagan. ed hull says dr. koop was a good guy who care about a lot of people. sequestration, shelly brown says can we just get congress to pass a one-line bill to repeal the damn sequester? >> bill: that's all it would take by the way then they could go back to work on long-term debt reduction. >> on bonny jindal, he's the head of a state who needs more federal funds for poverty and destruction from weather events. he just wants to keep the oil companies happy. find us on twitter at bpshow. >> bill: the question before we get to your calls just imagine this. i made this point yesterday. i have to make it again today. what if there was a republican in the white house and we got to this point where the sequestration and national security is on the line and the head of the homeland security secretary, whoever it happened to be, some republican, came out, at the white house the way janet napolitano did yesterday and said our national security is at stake. we're putting our safety and our security in jeopardy. if t
remember he served for ronald reagan. ed hull says dr. koop was a good guy who care about a lot of people. sequestration, shelly brown says can we just get congress to pass a one-line bill to repeal the damn sequester? >> bill: that's all it would take by the way then they could go back to work on long-term debt reduction. >> on bonny jindal, he's the head of a state who needs more federal funds for poverty and destruction from weather events. he just wants to keep the oil companies...
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i do think misspelling reagan, if every single person does not know how to spell ronald reagan, that's really bad. >> they should know how to spell it backwards while drunk. that's something you should know. reagan, you should know. >> bill: somebody should be checking their web site before they hit send. >> in this era i'm hesitant to make fun of spelling because i myself am a terrible speller. >> bill: how do you spell reagan? >> that i know. r-e-a. i lived through it. that's part of the reason why i want to get active is to not go through a presidency like that. also, i'm thinking about reagan today because reagan is the reason why we lost wisconsin, right? it was reagan who really put in the policies to -- i don't want to say undo -- to hurt unions in a significant way. >> bill: starting are the air-traffic controllers, of course. the legacy -- scott walker continuing the legacy. he probably -- scott walker can spell it too. let's say hello to henry up in new york city. what do you say? >> caller: hi. i thought about wisconsin. >> bill: yes. >> caller: if you looked at the cnn exit
i do think misspelling reagan, if every single person does not know how to spell ronald reagan, that's really bad. >> they should know how to spell it backwards while drunk. that's something you should know. reagan, you should know. >> bill: somebody should be checking their web site before they hit send. >> in this era i'm hesitant to make fun of spelling because i myself am a terrible speller. >> bill: how do you spell reagan? >> that i know. r-e-a. i lived...
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reagan and tip o'neill. you saw that in the united states senate with leaders like tom daschle, and clint mitchell. because the fact is president obama can rightfully i believe blame john boehner and mitch mcconnell for unwilling -- an unwillingness to compromise and avoid the sequester, but the same time the reality is to get anything done, whether it is the fiscal crisis or passing a budget or avoiding the debt ceiling or doing something on gun safety or immigration reform or climate control, the president needs republican votes. i think he is doing -- i the he is absolutely doing the right thing. i get nervous about it right? sometimes. but on this i really do trust the president. he is not going to give away the store on this. he is going to insist that whatever resolution comes out of it, has to be an balanced approach, the simpson bowles approach. yes, spending cuts and yes, new revenue. and i think it's very significant by the way that dish told you i had a chance in las vegas to interview alan simpso
reagan and tip o'neill. you saw that in the united states senate with leaders like tom daschle, and clint mitchell. because the fact is president obama can rightfully i believe blame john boehner and mitch mcconnell for unwilling -- an unwillingness to compromise and avoid the sequester, but the same time the reality is to get anything done, whether it is the fiscal crisis or passing a budget or avoiding the debt ceiling or doing something on gun safety or immigration reform or climate control,...
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paul ryan said the same thing that ronald reagan said in the 80's. they called it voodoo economics. >> that's right. >> he's trying to peddle the same stuff. the republican party has based their whole party on low taxes for millionaires. even they know it doesn't work. it doesn't. the proof's in the pudding but it would really invalidate their party if they said it didn't work, let's do something else. >> sometimes facts have to come into this. as bill clinton said in charlotte, what happened to math? >> right. i heard another show this morning that whoever runs this presidential race, we know who's going to win should do a jimmy carter, like the palestinian leader and take them to camp david and sit them in a room and let them play chess and everything. the problem with that is grover norquist will be sitting in the driveway saying no taxes, no new taxes. >> all that made the pledge to norquist i thought the pledge was supposed to be to the united states of america to the rest of us. thank you tony for calling in. i thought the pledge was supposed t
paul ryan said the same thing that ronald reagan said in the 80's. they called it voodoo economics. >> that's right. >> he's trying to peddle the same stuff. the republican party has based their whole party on low taxes for millionaires. even they know it doesn't work. it doesn't. the proof's in the pudding but it would really invalidate their party if they said it didn't work, let's do something else. >> sometimes facts have to come into this. as bill clinton said in...
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. >> ronald reagan, they accuse him of amnesty too. in the '80s. my point is if you say you're passing an immigration bill and you don't do anything about 11 million people that are here, you haven't done anything, right? who are they kidding? but it comes back to -- same thing with the students. obviously there is a calculation, a political calculation that they can ignore the latino community, ignore the fastest-growing block of the american electorate and survive as a political party. i want to play a clip that democratic leader nancy pelosi on "meet the press" yesterday was asked about this and here's her sort of warning to the g.o.p. >> we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the senate. that's a big victory. i believe that the members of congress and any more that are directly affected themselves by the number of hispanics in their district will do what is right for our country. it is certainly right for the republicans to say everyone to win a presidential race. >> bill: if they ever want to win the white house back, they
. >> ronald reagan, they accuse him of amnesty too. in the '80s. my point is if you say you're passing an immigration bill and you don't do anything about 11 million people that are here, you haven't done anything, right? who are they kidding? but it comes back to -- same thing with the students. obviously there is a calculation, a political calculation that they can ignore the latino community, ignore the fastest-growing block of the american electorate and survive as a political party....
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. >> rename a post office for ronald reagan or something. >> bill: i have to ask you about the post offices it seems to me we must be renaming post offices. have we gone through every post office you can possibly name already? >> we want to make sure we make as many people as possible feel good. when you rename them after new people, it gives everybody an opportunity to cycle through. you're right. it is absurd we're doing that when there are so many other important issues to deal with. >> bill: the senate did last night, pass comprehensive immigration reform by a vote of 68-32. even before they took that vote, congressman, speaker john boehner didn't show much promise for what might happen in the house. here he is. >> apparently some haven't gotten the message. the house is not going to take up and vote on whatever the senate passes. >> bill: now seems to me the one who didn't get the message here might be be speaker john boehner. >> yeah. there's some tsunami about to come down on the house of representatives and these guys are whistling along. it was a great day in the senate. big bipart
. >> rename a post office for ronald reagan or something. >> bill: i have to ask you about the post offices it seems to me we must be renaming post offices. have we gone through every post office you can possibly name already? >> we want to make sure we make as many people as possible feel good. when you rename them after new people, it gives everybody an opportunity to cycle through. you're right. it is absurd we're doing that when there are so many other important issues to...
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ronald reagan. now, here is the clip that think progress discovered from 1985, president reagan at the whitehouse: >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well above $100,000 a year. he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said illegally able to take advantage of the prevent tax code. nothing dishonest. doing what the law prescribes and wind up paying a smaller salary than my secretary gets -- i mean paying a small -- sorry. paying a smaller tax than my secretary pays. and he wrote me the letter to tell me he would like to come to washington and testify before congress as to how that's possible for him to do and why it is wrong. >> charlie, it sounds to me like he was the first patriotic millionaire? >> he is a wild-eyed radical who president obama put it, could not have a chance at the republican p
ronald reagan. now, here is the clip that think progress discovered from 1985, president reagan at the whitehouse: >> just a moment ago, a few moments ago, i told some people inside the building here of a letter that i just received day before yesterday. it's a letter from a man out here in the country, an executive who is earning in six figures, well above $100,000 a year. he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said illegally able to take advantage of the prevent tax code....
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ronald reagan. the kind of typical stuff obama is a tax and spend liberal. there are two areas he departed from rubio. one on defense spending where rand paul has been completely at odds with the republican party in saying the sequester that's looming should go through -- and if anything, we should cut the pentagon more and he was a little bit more liberal. that's really -- i think what -- >> bill: a libertarian position. >> right. i think he's trying to pick up this. he is the younger you know, in some ways, more appealing to the mainstream candidate than his father. i think he's trying to run in 2016 and raise his profile. this was an opportunity for him to do that. >> bill: right. not surprising there is very little difference between marco rubio and rand paul. white house pointed out marco rubio's speech could have been given by mitt romney. there was nothing new in it in terms of -- if he's the future of the republican party, it is going to look just like the past. >> it could have been given by any republican for the past 30 years. and there was nothin
ronald reagan. the kind of typical stuff obama is a tax and spend liberal. there are two areas he departed from rubio. one on defense spending where rand paul has been completely at odds with the republican party in saying the sequester that's looming should go through -- and if anything, we should cut the pentagon more and he was a little bit more liberal. that's really -- i think what -- >> bill: a libertarian position. >> right. i think he's trying to pick up this. he is the...
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. >> we lost ronald reagan's sole mate maggie thatcher. had he she knew her nickname. >> the iron lady of the western world. yes, indeed. mitch mcconnell claimed -- maybe correctly, that his office was bugged when they were making plans about how to take on ashley judd and mitch mcconnell says this reminded me of some real crook. >>nu 3. >> unbeknownst to us at the time they were bugging our headquarters, quite a nixonian move. this is what you get from the political left in america these days. >> uh-huh. you get from republicans. nixonian. next hour about whether or not he may have broken the law. david letterman says a new movie, "42" we have come a long way since those days of jackie robinson. >> breaking the color bear ye in major league baseball and you say thank goodness. look at things now. we have a president who is black. we have a supreme court justice who is latino. and we have a speaker of the house who is orange. >> you can't make enough fun of john boehner and the color orange. finally, in the great big media news of the week
. >> we lost ronald reagan's sole mate maggie thatcher. had he she knew her nickname. >> the iron lady of the western world. yes, indeed. mitch mcconnell claimed -- maybe correctly, that his office was bugged when they were making plans about how to take on ashley judd and mitch mcconnell says this reminded me of some real crook. >>nu 3. >> unbeknownst to us at the time they were bugging our headquarters, quite a nixonian move. this is what you get from the political...
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in 1988, ronald reagan, people went to jail. >> bill: yeah. absolutely. we got nothing. we got bumpcuskus out of this which was a lot bigger scandal than that one. >> this is "the bill press show." >> connect with the bill press show on twitter. follow us and use the hash tag watchingbt. this is "the bill press show" >> bill: what do you say 33 minutes after the hour? happy friday. may 17th. it is the full court press, and just talking about the reaction to and getting your reaction to my call for eric holder to step down. look. he's been there four years. he has had four years. you know, hilda solis has gone. four years is about as much time unless they are doing an outstanding job. eric holder has not done an outstanding job. i think he has let us down let me down certainly in too many areas not going after the wall street financial gurus who almost brought us -- did bring us to the brink of ruin, too aggressively pushing the anti-drug laws and not going after george bush, not going after dick cheney, instead going after reporters just doing their job. eric holder, tim
in 1988, ronald reagan, people went to jail. >> bill: yeah. absolutely. we got nothing. we got bumpcuskus out of this which was a lot bigger scandal than that one. >> this is "the bill press show." >> connect with the bill press show on twitter. follow us and use the hash tag watchingbt. this is "the bill press show" >> bill: what do you say 33 minutes after the hour? happy friday. may 17th. it is the full court press, and just talking about the...
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i have ronald reagan's blood as my running mate. >> as of yesterday afternoon, a bidding for the vial had exceeded $11,000. it's just -- >> the only thing donald trump is back campaigning again, wants you to know this time donald trump is campaigning for a speaking slot, a prime time speech at the republican national convention in tampa. he tweeted out yesterday: can you imagine me speaking at the rnc convention in tampa? >> a speech everyone would watch. and he is asking his twitter followers to contact the rnc and tell them that they want to hear donald trump speak at the rnc convention. i want to know. i want to tell you, i sign on. i am absolutely in support of that. i think i will send -- i will send them a twitter and facebook and everything message. i want the republican national convention to have donald trump up at the platform. >> if the rnc is looking for ratings, you know, put him up there and let him speak. >> uh-huh. >> you are right. i would watch. >> i absolutely would watch because you never know what that -- >> right. >> -- moron is going to say. >> remember that ran
i have ronald reagan's blood as my running mate. >> as of yesterday afternoon, a bidding for the vial had exceeded $11,000. it's just -- >> the only thing donald trump is back campaigning again, wants you to know this time donald trump is campaigning for a speaking slot, a prime time speech at the republican national convention in tampa. he tweeted out yesterday: can you imagine me speaking at the rnc convention in tampa? >> a speech everyone would watch. and he is asking his...
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reagan who was very strongly for a ban on assault weapons. "huffington post" reporting yesterday or this morning i guess is, another yet another republican president very strong on gun control, who would go way beyond banning assault weapons who would ban all handguns, handguns that president being richard nixon. back in may 1972, the day after an assassin shot and paralyzed george wallace the white house tapes, those famous tapes recorded richard nixon as telling his aides in the oval office "i don't know why any individual should have a right to a revolver in his house. why can't we go after handguns, period." then he continued "i know the rifle association will be against it. the gunmakers will be against it. but people should not have handguns." boom. period. >> pretty clear. >> bill: where richard nixon stood on that issue. isn't it funny how republicans can't even follow their own leaders when it comes to this issue on gun control. and on that other issue of sodas, the headline -- 16 ounce remember michael bloomberg came up with this la
reagan who was very strongly for a ban on assault weapons. "huffington post" reporting yesterday or this morning i guess is, another yet another republican president very strong on gun control, who would go way beyond banning assault weapons who would ban all handguns, handguns that president being richard nixon. back in may 1972, the day after an assassin shot and paralyzed george wallace the white house tapes, those famous tapes recorded richard nixon as telling his aides in the...